The opening montage of Watchmen is one of the best opening montage of any film I've ever seen. Overall I really liked the movie.

I remember watching this in theaters and feeling like, "Why aren't more people talking about this movie?"

"But its complex narrative structure may make it difficult for it to appeal to viewers not already familiar with the source material..." I had never heard or read any Watchen before seeing this movie and I loved it on first watch, even more when I saw the Ultimate Cut with the comic animated movie "Tales of the Black Freighter" in it and. I strongly believe that this movie paved the way for the more modern comics books movies we see nowadays

I don’t care what anyone says, I’ve enjoyed all versions of this film. I can’t watch it non stop like some movies, but every once in awhile it’s great.

The Ultimate Cut are the best version. It has the Director's Cut with Tales of the Black Freighter spliced within the film. Jackie Earl Haley was the best of an awesome cast.

Watchmen is, in my opinion, one of the greatest superhero movies ever made! Yes there are flaws but it’s a beautifully shot movie with great performances. Specifically Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach. His performance is up there with Heath Ledgers Joker.

This was the first R-rated movie I saw in theaters. I saw it with my dad for my 17th birthday. If you have seen this movie, then I guess you can say I really know how to pick 'em, lol. Superhero sex, giant blue man walking around with no draws on, super bloody, etc. It was a cool theater experience though.

I think its Zach's best film. No one was more surprised than me that it was good. I mean, I thought it was impossible to film. I still think everyone should read the book for the added layers as there is no replacement. Its so thick and layered. But that the movie is as good as it is...Its a minor miracle. Also the intro is one of my fave film intros. The choice of Times They are A Changin with like the condensed history to introduce audiences. Great stuff. A little like the V for Vendetta movie I think that the movie and books can supplement each other.

I remember this movie for a couple of reasons one Doctor Manhattan walking around Vietnam disintegrating people like the Jolly Green Giant or the Jolly Blue Giant. And Rorschach saying, I'm not lock in here with you you're lock in here with me.

Jackie Haley is brilliant in everything he’s in, from the classic The Bad News Bears, to today.

My favorite of Zack Snyder's films. I was already having super hero fatigue back then and it was a breath of fresh air.

"A Masterpiece ", in my opinion. As a huge comics fan, didn't know about this brand before the film. I loved it. Getting to learn about each characters throughout the movie, was a blast. A flick for the adult comics fans.

This is actually one of My favorites. Considering the scope of the original graphic novel Zack did a great job of condensing it. You would need a mini-series cover everything in it. I didn't care for Malin Ackerman, but I love the rest of the cast. I think Hilary Swank would have made a better Silk Spectre. I've seen the Director's Cut but plan on getting the Ultimate Cut.

Always has been my favorite superhero movie of all time. It was interesting to see a video that discusses the various controversies.

I went to see this movie at my local theater when it was released. Prior to watching the trailer to it I knew nothing about Watchmen. So after watching the trailer I went out and bought the graphic novel read it through and loved it. When the movie was finally released I went to see it and loved it too. It's not as bad as people make it to be.

I liked it and still rewatch it from time to time. I get Alan Moores dislike of the expansions and adaptations but I think this did the source material justice and is a visual treat.

I remember when this movie was coming out. I was in 8th grade, and remember all the trailers

Jeffery Dean Morgan went on to play one other significant comic book character.. hmmm who was that again? Can’t quite remember…SPLAT!

I think the bottom line is where comicbook movies like The Avengers and Justice League are exactly that, they are "movies" that are designed for some mindless spectacular fun with a simple to follow storyline (which I do love as well but just in a different mind set), Watchmen is a "film" designed for a patient complicated thinker who is unintimidated by artistic nudity and can let a story evolve without an explosion every five minutes or large amounts of Riddilen. I loved it when it came out. I loved the extended version and I am shocked how poorly received it was rated it is as I rate it somewherebetween Batman Begins and Dark Knight. I'm certain that my perception might have a great deal to do with that fact that I have yet to read the graphic novels if compared to the hardcore fans but I also think if compared to the comic movie fan I have a greater tolerance for a slow burn and am less homophobia then others in the Audience pool, as I cannot say how many times I heard "there was way too much blue dong" or " it went way too slow" my my guy friends.

I saw this opening weekend with two friends of mine. We all loved it! Say what you will about Zack Snyder. I, love his work. I bought the graphic novel a few weeks before the movie came out. For me, it was a chore to read. I could barely get through it in time! But Snyder's version. I can sit and watch the director's cut no problem. I've watched it at least 10 times. Jackie Earl Haley is AMAZING in this movie. That prison mess hall scene, *chef's kiss.* Jeffery Dean Morgan is not too far behind performance wise. This film may have a lot of haters. But I LOVE it!

Imagine if Alan Moore was the creator of Black Panther he would downright hate Wakanda Forever and i would love to see his take on Ryan Cooglar

No, the movie and the comic aren't the only options. The motion comic exists and it's my favourite way of experiencing this story. I implore you all to watch it because the story of Watchmen takes time to move more quickly it will be a while for the same in the motion comic. All of those people that didn't like the changes the movie made and want an almost completely accurate version that they don't have to read, the motion comic is for you.

Great production this time around, very solid

I seriously don't understand the hate this movie gets. It's literally the most faithful screen adaptation of any comic movie.

The watchmen is a masterpiece in graphic novel representation. He nails everything - character, plot, score, visuals, tone. Maybe there are pacing issues but, when you're watching a film this good, I don't mind it taking time with itself

Snyder likes to incorporate themes and allegories that go against the grain. Which people conveniently ignore as they bitch and moan about petty shit. And let's face it, DC fans are notoriously more childish than Marvel fans; all in all.

The Cosmonauts Variety Show Guy...I hear your narration!

One of my favourite movies and I think it was a great adaption from a graphic novel to film.

I loved the movie, and went out and bought the graphic novel. I have never really read comics, and I think I would have been lost trying to read it if I hadn't seen the film.

Honestly I don’t understand the hatred from Moore. Snyder and crew showed a lot of respect for the source material and didn’t butcher it. Few differences for sure but it’s a very faithful adaptation. I watched the movie first and when I got the Novel I was stunned by all of the similarities in dialogue and scene framing etc.

After not reading the graphic novel for years, I saw the movie and loved it. Then I finally got the GN and loved that too. Had no idea there was an "ultimate" cut...

Just Rewatched the extended cut last weekend..I still think it's the BEST SUPER HERO movie ever made.

All along the watchtower is a Jimmy Hendrix song.

I got into all of those reality-bending, anarchic, subversive graphic novel titles and their authors at around the same time owing directly to my discovery during a conversation with a like-minded person at a party of the identification of those authors with magick. Obviously "Watchmen" stood out like a floating gorilla's finger floating in the darkness against a black wall covered in faintly-carved sigils. It was bloody awesome and as soon as I found out that a film had been made about it, I rented it and watched it twice before returning it the following day. I didn't watch it twice because I thought it captured the essence of the graphic novels well or because the story line and its execution on celluloid carried anything close to the same degree of excitement. It was apparent to me before (jeez, I might be wrong and it might not have been THIS long ago, but the memory seems to be there) I slid the VHS cassette into the slot that to capture the madness that was "Watchmen" was a feat comparable with changing your feet for another pair without removing your shoes first. It was comparatively slow and although well cool, Rorschach was just not at all as messed-up and perplexing in his complexity as a character as the novels made him out to be. In fact, none of the characters really were, and honestly, now, how the hell could they have been? Those anti/superheroes are possessed of levels of complexity that I can't really imagine anyone other than Alan Moore could combine without completely alienating his readers. Combine that with all the hell so many people went through trying to get the film made and in theaters with the correct rating and at an appropriate runtime, and what you have is basically a miracle. That the movie was made at all is mind blowing. And so to this day, I still watch it again here and there, warts and all. There are scenes I want to leap out of my seat and act out with the players. I remember all the crappy reviews and basic box office failures that accompanied its release, but I don't really care. I love that it exists at all.

I believe The Losers and Jonah Hex are the DC movies that came out after Watchmen.... Not Green Lantern.

The Ultimate DVD Box Set is one my favorite possessions

2:49 What?!?! I've read all over about Moore's disconnection from the movies but never heard of this before. Larry Cohen? Script? Cast of characters? Fox? What?? Please explain.

I fucking love the extended cut of this movie with the black freighter. One of my favorite movies

Memba when DC cared about great storytelling?

I got to watch in ahead of time and really enjoyed the movie, the director's cut is a must it fills in some holes left out.

I remember not liking watchmen when I first seen it but now it's my favorite comic book movie I think it probably would have had more impact had it come out 10 years later during the height of the MCU

I hate Zack Snyder movies, especially his DC projects. But, this is not only this a legit great superhero movie, I honestly prefer this over the graphic novel because of how it improves the ending.

Neverever seen a novel or anything related to the Watchmen - but the movie made a big impact. I really liked the movie. I have though not watched it thru that many times, due it having quite a runtime.. But, with that being said; I really oughta now take tumento watch it thru again.

5:47 brought in Alaze' to rewrite it. 😆 👍 Id need to drink too 😅

Ultimate cut was awesome

06:30 Yo, that's how they slickly holster a weapon into an awkward back holster/scabbard in movies?! Now Imma have to try not to chuckle every time I see that in a scene, thinking about how there's some person crouched back there to grab it and hold it against the actor's back... 😮😂🤣

Absolutely loved Rorschach, also absolutely hated Dr Manhattan..... One had no powers but fought crime, the other had powers and used them to slaughter millions on a belief and had no humanity left in him, Dr Manhattan actually felt himself to be God so only simply did as he felt like. And nobody can say "by killing many you saved more" because that was only a theory of theirs, it doesn't mean it'd happened. Even "the worlds smartest man" isn't always right. He's just a freak who ended up with too much power and absolutely no soul. The plot is just so stupid really, they could have ended it in 2 minutes by the blue freak blowing up everything all over and then turning him into the villain without trying to make it into such a "plot".

I've read the comic before watching the movie and, despite them being both really good, I slightly prefer the movie, one of the few instances of me preferring the video rather than the page (Blade Runner perhaps being the only other one). I really enjoyed watching this movie, because it catched what I liked about the comic, left out what I didn't like much and delivered a perfect Rorschach. A shame that the movie didn't earn as much recognition as it deserved.

Loved the movie. Hoping a sequel could come some day

Hands down ... BEST MOVIE OF 2009

The first few minutes is a better movie than many full length films.

Jude Law as Ozymandious is inspiring casting

I watched possibly THE WORLD's most conservatively cut version of Watchmen on an Emirates flight and damn if I didn't feel totally transported by it from the opening credits. Something about flying at 40,000 feet makes you understand Dr Manhattan's tastefully-loin-clothed perspective

Is it the blue balls then. He really should get some relief.

"But it's complex narrative structure may make it difficult for it to appeal to viewers not already familiar with the source material" And people wonder why I ignore the critics. Honestly I'm MORE likely to watch a movie with a poor critical score.

Michael Bays watchmen? Throwing up in my mouth just thinking about it

A great version of a well crafted story.

So much in the comic you would have to make a 2 or 3 part movie. With that said Zach Snyder and the writers did a great job and it does basically tell the story. I wish it would include the original ending with the squid.

Saw it in the theater. I loved.

I never did recognize Jeffrey Dean Morgan as 'The Comedian'... He looks a lot different, I guess it was a long time ago, and back then I wasn't looking for Jeffrey in anything... It wasn't until TWD and beyond that he was on my radar. His role in this movie and the TWD were amazing, he truly knows how to embody a character to bring it to life on screen. There's some actors where they either play themselves in every single movie or the same character regardless of the movie/script.

The Dirctor's Cut... Pretty Great... to Me

I was an avid comic book reader/collector in the 90s. I never heard of Watchmen. I saw the movie awhile after it came out (the Director’s Cut) and have loved it since day one. It’s been in my home library ever since. I don’t have the creator’s bias but I definitely sympathize with him not liking adaptions of his work if they aren’t up to his standard. Um...who was the TV series “extremely well received” by? Every review, every comment, every opinion I’ve ever heard about it has ripped it apart, not just for its horrific writing and wasted cast, but for its overtly woke storytelling and character destruction.

Im a huge fan of the Watchmen comics and I thouht the film, especially the Ultimate cut did justice to it, the end change I was not so fond of but could see why they did it. On the whole it stays pretty close to the source material, more so than most, if not all of the MCU superhero films, so as a comic fan that pleased me more.

Loved the movie, and I was ok with the changes from the graphic novel. My only beef was with Rorschach towards the end of the movie where he is confronted by Dr. Manhattan. In the movie it seems he is near tears when he says "do it", Rorschach being Rorschach he should have growled it defiantly.

Wow no offense to Wilson, Goode, or Ackerman... maybe a little offense to Ackerman, but now I'm curious what an alternate version of Nite Owl, Silk Spectre 2, and Ozymandias would've been like if they had cast with Rachel Weiss, Kevin Costner, and Jude Law.

My profile pic is an adaptation of one of the original panels. Yay!

2:34 🎅🏻 santa-claus

My favorite comic book movies Joker, Logan and Watchmen

Alan Moore was possibly the greatest ever comic book writer (Halo Jones is my fave) and I treasure his work. He was treated so badly by both the comics industry and the movie industry. Having said that I still absolutely love the film.

Another great JoBlo video.

I just rewatched this and I do think it is a flawed classic. There are some sequences that are amazing but definitely some slop too. As a whole I think it’s very effective.

"While the cgi isn't flawless, it's still pretty good for 2009" you mean the same year Avatar came out?

Best Intro in Movie-History

I personally love this film, but I can see why isnt for everyone, like an Avengers movie.

0:12 a little to dark in terms of colour as the main colour of the comic being yellow is completely muted

Still bummed y'all skipped Shaq's magnum opus "Steel."

Jeffrey Dean Morgan was also in The Losers movie based off DC Vertigo's series of the same name.

At some point Joblo will need to switch its emphasis on a product's quality from "critics' reviews" to "audience reviews", specially always basing that on Rotten Tomatoes. The TV show may have received wide praise from the former but not from the latter, leading to its cancellation. It was pretty bad.

Watchmen was so slow going. Then I realize Zack Snyder adapted the graphic novel panel by panel.

I've never read the graphic novel and didn't see the movie until about 2021 or so but I did enjoy the movie for what it was. I had no problem with it.

Rare movie I have seen twice in theatre and then in IMAX. Loved it, and than read the novel. Years I've been hearing that the movie betrayed what the novel is about but don't get why?

I remember finding the original graphic novel, when I was working for enterprise rent a car, maybe a year ar two b4 the movie dropped, was actually a dope read. Not sure why people don't like it. It definitely stayed true to the story almost verbatim. As it is itself a controversial story it is only natural for not to be received by everyone the same. As an 80s baby I like to see these types of things at least given a shot once sequels are not necessary

"Rorschach's journal: Oct 12, 1985" That was the day I first met my wife. How weird is that?

This used to be my go to “movie on whippets and ketamine” or just to sleep

As disappointed as I was that we didn't get to see Veidt's genetically-engineered behemoth brain creature surrounded by streets full of dead New Yorkers up on the big screen... I still liked the movie. For one thing, it proved the material wasn't unadaptable. But to make a more faithful version, you need more time... far more than you can get in a theatrical release, even a really long one. And yet, *Lord Of The Rings* and *Kill Bill* were both stories that took multiple movies to tell.

I always consider First, We Take Manhattan as the theme for Ozymandias.

I think the biggest issue with the film is how it obviously takes moral sides with characters, which, to my reading, is antithetical to the comics' intended themes.

Watchman is one of my favorite superhero movie of all time ,it's beautifully dark

The alien ending... would it have made it smarter? Or given up the game?

Snyder’s adaptation had a couple major flaws. The biggest was he telegraphed the ending by making the actual villain too obvious. It should come as a complete shock, like it does in the graphic novel. Another flaw was making the non-powered heroes have superhuman fighting capabilities. Undercuts one of the major themes of the story, dealing with heroes with powers and those without.

The fact this is controversial but not the horrible tv show that rewrote entire characters is crazy.

With offbeat superhero-related material like this and *The Boys* both successful, I'd like to see Marvel adapt both their *Squadron Supreme* and *The Twelve* miniseries ... could be just the shakeup the MCU needs.

It has it's moments, some of which are brilliant and some of which are execrable.

I will say for a movie that’s on a comic it’s great but when you read the comic it’ll definitely have moments that piss you off/rub you the wrong way

14:54. WHAT?! Audiences seem to disagree with your statement.

This movie is fantastic! Seriously loved it!

This is JoBlo's 4th video covering Watchmen ... There are other Comic Book/Superhero movies, you know.

It's my favorite movie. Seriously. Dr. Manhattan was done so well.

It was totally unecesary to change the 3rd act. That was the insult/error that hurt the film with fans of the original source material.

I loved it and I loved the novel. I loved V also.